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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. Nonpartisan League candidates In Idaho will lid permitted to enter the primaries on September 3 on the Demo-cnillc Demo-cnillc ballot, under n supreme court decision. .Shoes soled will) steel will be worn hy men at (Jump Lewis, Wnsh., in a lew days lis the first experiment of lis kind tried in any cantonment in i lie country to test the etllcleney of the new foot L-enr. Salt Lake City will have one battalion bat-talion of four companies, a machine tun company, a heachpiarters company iind a supply company, as a part of Utah's new national guard, which is now being organized. Ten thousand draft men will entrain en-train for Camp Lewis from nine western west-ern states during the period of August Aug-ust 22 to ,'iO. Since October 28, 3910, shipyards In the Oregon district have launched i;iO thips up to July 10, 101S. Twenty-six :if these vessels- have been steel freighters, the balance have been ivoodoti boats for both freight and passenger pas-senger service. ' Steady drilling for the last six months has developed 100 convicts in the state penitentiary at Deer Lodge, Mont., into a military company that measures up In every way to the. standard, stan-dard, of the United States army, ac-:ording ac-:ording to Warden Conley. The wage controversy between the CVnver Tramway company and its employes em-ployes will he referred to the war labor tioard. DOMESTIC. .lames Carew, husband of Ellen Terry, noted English actress and a native na-tive of Goshen, Iud., has applied for military service In the United States Irniy through the Goshen exemption board. Carew is over GO years of age. Before the beginning of his stage career his name was James Caselman. . Miss Isabella Fedora, vice president nul general manager of an equipment company at New York, and Michael t'olsk were convicted of conspiracy to He-fraud the government on nrmy contracts. con-tracts. Bail was denied and they were sent to jail to await sentence. Mrs. Alice M. French of Indianapolis ivas elected national war mother at he closing session of Hie convention at Indianapolis of the American War Mothers. Cotton buyers and mill owners urged the necessity for government control at the New- York cotton exchange and the elimination of speculation of a purely gambling nature at a hearing :ield at Boston by the bureau of marvels mar-vels of the department of agriculture. Uobert Fay, who was convicted of placing bombs on ships carrying supplies sup-plies and troops to Europe and who escaped after being sentenced to the penitentiary, has been apprehended in Spain. The railroad administration has au-:hori.ed au-:hori.ed railroads to accept Liberty xmds as security for payment of ,'relglit charges instead of requiring surety bonds. Four men were seriously wounded Hiring a pistol battle with three rob-Jers rob-Jers who blew the safe in the bank at Jreeley, Kansas, and escaped with between be-tween $2000 and ?:!000. Leland L. Hudson, a selective service serv-ice man from I'axson, Alaska, 200 miles north of Fairbanks, is at Camp Lewis. Wash., after a trip of more than oOOO miles, in which he traveled !y dog team, buckboard, mail barge, river steamer, railway and coastwise vessel. Sergeant David Robertson, s.ild to he in age and length of service one ot the oldest men in the United States ji-my, died August 14 at Governor's Island. He was ST years old and had iK-en in the army for 67 years. Former Congressman Edward II. Gillette, Gil-lette, who was prominent in early Iowa politics, died at his home near Des Moines. August 4. He was a brother nf William Gillette, the actor-playwright. Six persons were killed and a score injured by lightning bolts during a severe electrical storm which swept eastern Pennsylvania Wednesday. Heavy property damage was reported. in a tight with n submarine off the North Atlantic coast a British armed merclK.ntman claims to have sunk the I'-boat. Details of the battle were not made public. I President Wilson will niMres the biggest audience In his history nhon he speaks at Chicago on Labor day, for not only will the thousands hear Mm who have gathered about the speaker's stand, but additional millions will listen lis-ten to his address over the telephone. I 'J'lio British steamer Penistoue, victim vic-tim of a submarine attack 100 miles east of .Nantucket Sunday, was sunk without wuniing, Benjamin Davles, ex-ei-uiivp officer of (lie ship, reported on arrival at Nantucket, Mas., with other survivors. Immediate payment of retroactive awards made to ship workers in settlement set-tlement of wage disputes lias been ordered by Charles I'lez, general manager man-ager of the Emergency Fleet corporation. corpora-tion. Plans for providing seed wlieut for farmers of Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado Colo-rado and Texas through government loans are being perfected. WASHINGTON. The war department has announced that enlisted men In camp may obtain furloughs to engage in agricultural work by making application to their commanding ofticers or by having relatives rela-tives or other interested persons apply -through the local boards at which they registered. Freedom of departure from Oils country of aliens by means of which a number of dangerous enemy agents have been able to escape from the authorities au-thorities will not be permitted after September, under a proclamation signed sign-ed by President Wilson and an executive execu-tive order. Provost Marshal General Crowder announced Thursday that plans already al-ready have been made for registering the 1:5,000,000 additional men which he estimates will be brought under the selective se-lective service law when congress enacts the pending bill extending the age limits to include men between 18 and 45 years. Four million American soldiers can defeat the Germany army is the belief be-lief of Qeneral March, chief of staff, and present plans of the war department depart-ment call for more than that number under arms next summer with some 3,200,000 of them, or 80 divisions, in France by June 30. To aid further in financing crop movements, the war finance corporation corpora-tion reduced from 6 to 5 per cent the annual Interest rate on short term advances ad-vances to banks to ocver loans made to farmers or merchants for marketing wheat and other crops. FOREIGN. The "government of Northern Russia" Rus-sia" has been formed with M. Tchai-kowsky Tchai-kowsky as president and minister of foreign affairs. The other members of the government include socialists of various parties. The total production of wheat In France tins year is estimated at 1S3,-500,000 1S3,-500,000 bushels, being an increase of 25 per cent over last year's crop, according ac-cording to the Intransigneautic. Dr. Muehlon, the late director of Krupp's, show's plainly in his diary that the atrocities which German soldiers sol-diers committed in Belgium were known in Germany. Arrested as a Villa spy, Jesus Prado was tried by court-martial and executed execut-ed In the penitentiary plaza In Chihuahua Chihua-hua City. Prado was charged with having hav-ing furnished the dynamite which V ilia and Martin Lopez used to blow up trains at Consuelo and Bachimha pass. One thousand Czechs on their way to join General Seraeuoff arrived at Harbin and were given an enthusiastic reception, in which the allied consuls and members of the American railway commission took part. The march of events in Russia from news received seems to be rapidly assuming the proportions of a rout of the Bolshevikl and of a nature to bring dismay to Germany. Two strikers were killed and several sev-eral others wounded in a clash between be-tween strikers aud troops at Montevideo, Monte-video, Uruguay. The clash followed an announcement that an effort would be made to operate tramway cars, which was the signal for the assembling of great crowds of men. The United States and Great Britain Brit-ain have joined in diplomatic representations represen-tations to the Mexican government against the oil land decrees of President Presi-dent Carrauza. which it is contended amount m-actically to confiscation. Consul General Poole, at Moscow, Russia, after witnessing the violation of the French and British consulates and the arrests of the consuls general aud their staffs, destroyed his code book and papers and turned the affairs of the American consulate over to the Swedisli consul, at the same time demanding de-manding safe conduct from the country coun-try for himself and his associates. A new drive against the German position either in Flanders or between Oise and Soissous Is expeted by many American army officers as a result of the slowing up of the advance in the J Picardy theatre. General Justino Cotero, federal com- mander at Pearson, Chihuahua, was I killed by Martin Lopez's band when the passenger train was dynamited and i robbed at Consuelo station Saturday. |